PHILIP BARRETT
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Philip Barrett has been self-publishing comics since 2001, including writing and drawing 9 issues of his catch-all title ‘Matter’ and contributing to numerous anthologies. He is the illustrator on the Irish best-selling ‘Where’s Larry?’ find the character books, and his work has appeared in the Irish Times and Irish language kids comic ‘Ruaille Buaille’. Philip helped start the regular Dublin Comic Jam. He set up Blackshapes Books in 2014 to publish longer form graphic novel work, starting with John Robbin’s ‘Unlucky Unlikely’, followed by his own collection of short comics ‘In Bits’.